If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.